Evergreen Park students named to All-State Chorus
Suzy Summers and Diego Toledo have been selected to the All-State Chorus and Matthew Dever has been chosen for the All-State Honors Chorus for the second consecutive year.
This is the first time since 2010 that EPCHS has had three All-State selections.
Flossmoor promotes Novoa to finance director
The Village of Flossmoor has promoted its assistant finance director Ann Novoa to the position of finance director, effective Dec. 1.
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Novoa will oversee all aspects of financial administration within the village, including accounting, payroll, accounts receivable, accounts payable, investments and other financial transactions. She will also advise the village manager and board of trustees on all budgetary matters.
Novoa replaces retiring Finance Director Scott Bordui, who has been with the village since 1996, helping it earn the Excellence in Government Finance award from the Government Finance Officers Association annually since 1978.
Novoa joined the village of Flossmoor in June 2021 as the assistant finance director after two years as the comptroller/finance director at the village of Crestwood.
OLCHS athletes earn Scholastic Achievement awards
The Illinois High School Association honors junior and senior athletes who have completed at least one full season in an IHSA sport and maintained a cumulative unweighted grade-point average of 3.5 or higher with scholastic achievement awards.
The following Oak Lawn Community High School (OLCHS) athletes were recognized in their respective fall sports: Boys Cross Country (Hamzah Abdeljaber, Leo Chavez, Andrew Leon, Christian Orozco, and Kyle Rzepka); Boys Golf (Christian Richter and Shane Mulcahy); Boys Soccer (Ahmad Amra, Jakub Haberny, Abel Herrera, Tristan Kramarz, Adam Kwak, David Morales, Cristian Morales-Reyes and Dylan Walsh); Football (Nykolas Arellano, Emeen Hamad, Erhan Osmani and Hamid Sharfi); Girls Cross Country (Salma Bonilla, Nadine Taha, Layeal Yahia, Hadeel Yasin, Isabel Abarca, Dunia Daifallah, Anna Driscoll, Andrea Midnigh and Arlene Villagomez); Girls Golf (Jacquelin Canales, Kaitlyn Casey and Raquel Enriquez); Girls Tennis (Alexa Quintana, Yasmine Abdelghani, Rizan Ali, Elizabeth Concannon, Yumn Elameer, Emily Gregory, Eliza Janik, Jessica Komperda, Madyson Lane, Mia Wendt and Avery Wessel); Girls Swimming and Diving (Amelia Fudala, Alessandra Gabriel and Mya Orozco); Girls Volleyball (Kaitlyn Berkery, Kailey Dykema, Maeve Hassett, Amina Maali, Emma McAuliffe, Rihana Osmani and Hailey Wierzgac).
Lockport’s Harvey performs with symphonic wind ensemble
Lockport’s Joe Harvey, who plays tuba, is performing in the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble, most recently performed during the UW-Whitewater’s Gala Holiday Concert on Dec. 2.
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